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OK thats fine, but I think you will see people dont like adding to one place and then having to wait for you to transfer it, also they wont like you editing them if you think you have spotted a mistake and its not. All I am getting at is if you put half the time, effort and enthusiasm into actually learning web dev as you are into doing stuff the hard, crazy way you might be onto learning a very useful talent. Currently you are putting a lot of time and effort into whats avery lower standard of website. I know this sound very harsh but I am all for people providing decent services to the community and thats why i haven't had an issue with this and we all have to start somewhere but please stop wasting your time with stealing data and manually editing and moving data learn a skill which will be an asset to your project and set you up with a good skill for future

Wow you really are putting in the time. How I miss free time. Couple words.of advice which please don't take in a bitchy way. 1)Don't waste your time, if you have that much free time use it for something better or learn how to make a better system. 2)People will never use a system that convoluted, slow and boring. People online expect instant results and your process will never give them that. Let alone the fact I couldn't find where you explain to users how to do that and even if you were explaining it then it proves there's a flaw in your system.

Interesting, I cant even see how to add to your map. [disclaimer] Obviously I wasn't going to add to it was just playing around

Sorry I was looking through your code to give you some tips and came across this. Its just too good not to post. This is what I was saying about the free templates you are using because pony, Talking users through IE 5, Netscape and AOL browsers seriously? I am sure Liam is too young to remember netscape. http://www.trials-ex...quirements.html

Just a little side note to Liam, Dont get me wrong I built some awful websites in my time and even the code behind ridden.it isn't my best (im a front-end developer so ridden.it was much more than front-end) Anyone's first attempt at web development is never going to be good and I can see you are just using a free framework but I am afraid its a terrible one so to show no hard feelings few tops for you Dont use flash especially when you done need to, you have two pages on each page (flash and non-flash plus your non flash version is better so no idea why you have done this) If you want to take web development seriously go away and read these. (Take into account I am a front-end developer so these books are all for front-end) Javascript the good parts http://www.amazon.co...d/dp/0596517742 Html5 introduction & Html5 for web designers http://www.amazon.co...3268336&sr=8-22 http://www.abookapar...r-web-designers Before reading about HTML5 You need to fully understand html and where it has come from and have a grasp of html 4 and pervious versions, but I have never read any books on this so cant suggest any. Never read about css either as you can find everything you need online but I would suggest this one http://about.pricegr...terid=950138330 Steve Krugs books on usability and ux http://www.amazon.co...t_athr_dp_pel_1 I hope it goes well, its always great to have how to videos and its always great to have different peoples views and competition in the shop world is always great for the customers.

Hi guys Sorry its taken me awhile to come across this, I have a new email address and forgot to update my profile on here. Just got Jasons email when checking for other stuff. So thought I better clear things up, I dont personally know Liam but he does live only about 15 mins from where I grew up so when I started Ridden.it he did get in contact as he thought I was still riding in the area. Liam emailed me via facebook on the 2nd of November saying that he was starting a website "helping people with how to ride trials and fix there bikes etc." He went onto say "I would really like to do a "where to ride" page. I know you did "ridden.it" and i'm wondering if it would be possible to use the information from your website/map on my website?" My Response was that currently this wouldn't be possible because I haven't built and API and currently dont have the time to do so, I then explained how my domain got messed up for awhile so I was busy fixing that first. I guess when I said it wasn't possible I meant because I never expected anyone in their right mind to sit their trawling the data from the pages by themselves, I guess Liam did exactly this. He seems like a harmless dude but yes Liam this is a bit shameless of you, I believe in open web and open source but both those things revolve around trust and permission which you had neither. I am not too annoyed because its not like he stole my code or produced something with the same features as ridden.it but what is annoying is the lack of respect for the people, your fellow riders, who put in lots of time and hard work to upload their locations to ridden.it. I did my best to work with the riders from various different aspects of cycling to provide a useful tool for the riders and many of these guys were more than helpful and went out of their way to help me out give back to a sport and community which has supported me over the years, so its less me you owe an apology to but everyone who you copy and pasted their data without any credit. The one thing I have been ashamed on from the start is that spots aren't credited to people but it was a very stupid over sight from the start of ridden.it and I am thinking of a way of correcting it as we speak (its tricky because the first idea was a sort of wiki but i feel it now it should credit people). I am gutted that now I work a 9-5 its stripped most of my time from me to develop ridden.it, I had some great plans and would still love to see it grow and grow but something needs to pay the bills. I hope I can slowly build ridden.it and make the huge improvements which are needed. Thanks everyone Glynn

I am a cycling communist, and I like Ross Noble ..... and I have to partly agree. I think after my ride to work this morning it should be knobs in suits wearing stupid shoes for cycling jumping lights. Each one I see in London just piss me off. Or the worst offender is the people are not that good on a bike that do stop at the lights but the cycle around to the front of the people waiting. They do it at every set of lights causing me have to wait for them to get going cycle passed them and then have them do exactly the same in quater a mile. They are the worst because the effect me not just their own life. Rant over.

I have pics of me and my mates but thats probs not that interesting to others. Few below. Red BUll said there will be a video coming by friday on the mini drome site.

Qualified in 16th but then placed against the second fasted of the day in the last 32 knock out stages. But I was happy to only be 0.003 a second slower than him and was winning for the first 5 laps. Especially as he was from Latvia where this is a sport they do all the time apparently.

Yeah I have put my wide mtb bars on maybe a bit too wide but better than my normal risers. Yeah I have the rest sorted I was meant to ride last year but uni was in the way so my bro and mates rode so got their tips. Should be fun

I will be giving it a go. I enjoy giving almost anything ago on a bike even if I am surrounded by hipsters.

Thanks, I have looked on there briefly but was looking for peoples personal experiences with places and places which we know will be happy with bikes. Glynn

Hey I am going to Barcelona in the summer, I am looking for peoples experience with hostels out there? I am looking for somewhere cheapish, good location and most importantly bike friendly. Preferably somewhere that will allow you to take bikes into the rooms? Thanks Glynn

Nice, I like how little relevance it had to the company / product that was advertised

Yeah it should be good, There has already been talks into integrating an API into the tarty sites they can link into the site. We will see how things go, its hard to maintain a site and work on other peoples sites all day long. But I am trying to juggle it and do ridden.it when ever I have a spare 5 mins. But you can imagine 9 till 5 every day the last thing I want to do it go home to the computer, but sometimes these things need to be done and the great british weather often helps me stay in and do it.

Hey JD, Yeah Adam has been helping provide feedback and promotion right from day one. I cant thank Adam and all the tarty boys enough for their input

Hey guys, Thanks for recognising Ridden.it. It is still a small site but we hope with the help of the community we can see it grow. My aim is for Ridden.it to become a useful tool to all riders, this isn't possible without rider support and feedback. So please use the site if you like the idea and provide any feedback good or critical as all well be taken on board and considered during up dates. Feel free to contact me. Glynn

Cheers, This is already in the pipeline for improvements for the travel planner. It should have been included in the first release but I ran out of time for the uni deadline. I know i have been promising up dates but I have been so busy at work its just been crazy, but as a taster the search box for the map on the home page is now improved and will try and auto complete the town/city/county you are looking for. This gives you back results which hopefully are close to you so if I search in the uk I get plymouth devon if someone in usa searches they will get plymouth usa. This is the first step to the site having a global audience and global spots. Thanks again for all your support

Nice one Liam. Improving all the time. I am very jealous though as I can see lots of spots in this video which used to be my locals within 5 mins of my door and rode every weekend. Now Im here in the big smoke.

Dont bring your kid down with you. Scooters are one step worse than fruity booters. No one likes them and unless you want to go to the skate park and receive a whole load of buse you will stay clear. P.s I think the main reason they get so much stick is because its always little pikey kids who never get out the way and if its a bowl park they just go round and round in little groups so no one else can ride. One of those things, everyone in a skate park should get along but in reality scooters are just lame and annoying

Right you guys have been super busy and I cant thank you all soo much. The map is now starting to get insanely busy. My first update (which I think someone on here suggested earlier in the thread) is I a hoping over the next week to look into using Cluster markers to clean up the map, If that doesn't work out as well as I hope then I will figure out a new way to filter / organise the markers. Once that is done I hope to also open this up to a wider audience, not decided yet but I think it will be in stages starting with Europe. Joachim I will be in contact with you regarding this if you fancy helping out. Thanks Glynn

Hi Joachim There is a plan to go international with it, possibly starting with europe and then taking it wider over a short period of time. I just have to over come a few issues first and want to make sure I do this is the best way. I need to make sure when a user searches that the search is localised to the users location. For instance at the moment if it wasn't restricted to the UK and you search for Kent you get taken to America when you might have been looking for Kent, UK. So I have a way of doing this now so just need to implement it and test it. Thanks for your suggestion. Glynn

Yeah if I ever hit 25k API calls i will be too busy jizzing to worry about the site going down or paying to keep it up.

No they are all valid points so keep them coming. The description box was in the original scope but was left out as I felt the feedback wall could provide this. Since monitoring how people interact with the site and profiles I now think it would be nice to have a "adders description" which would allow the person who added the location to say what they think about it and this could stay at the top of the page and not move down like it would if it was a comment. All very good ideas which will get into the next release once I get some time to work on this. Next few weeks I am hoping to set aside some time each week to work on it. So we can have lots of improved features for the new year and the better weather. This could impact us. http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2011/10/introduction-of-usage-limits-to-maps.html Google are now going to charge for the use of their maps api once it gets passed a certain number of calls. I want this site to grow but people please dont send more than 25,000 map calls per day

Hi Ben, That is a very worth while point. I did play with the best position but couldn't decide. I am not thinking putting it to the right or left of the map might be nice. I am very lucky to have a nice 27" screen or 17" laptop so i imagine its not as nice on a smaller screen as you said you have to scroll down to it so I can see that would be a pain. Thanks for the feedback and the spots